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Nigger Heaven
Carl Van Vechten
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Description for Nigger Heaven
Paperback. Opening on a scene of tawdry sensationalism, this novel shifts decisively to a world of black middle-class respectability, defined by intellectual values, professional ambition, and an acute consciousness of class and racial identity. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 366.
No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of controversy because of its scandalous title and fed an insatiable hunger on the part of the reading public for material relating to the black culture of Harlem's jazz clubs, cabarets, and social events.
"The book and not the title is the thing," James Weldon Johnson insisted with regard to Nigger Heaven, and the book is indeed a nuanced and vibrant portrait of "the great black walled city" ... Read more
No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of controversy because of its scandalous title and fed an insatiable hunger on the part of the reading public for material relating to the black culture of Harlem's jazz clubs, cabarets, and social events.
"The book and not the title is the thing," James Weldon Johnson insisted with regard to Nigger Heaven, and the book is indeed a nuanced and vibrant portrait of "the great black walled city" ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
National Poetry Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068607
SKU
V9780252068607
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About Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten was a photographer and the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Kathleen Pfeiffer is an assistant professor of English at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.
Reviews for Nigger Heaven
"One of the best-selling novels of the Harlem Renaissance ... [this volume has been] out of print for much of the past seventy years... Van Vechten has long been a subject of fervid debate... He was committed to black achievement and creativity but also to the idea that that creativity and achievement only take certain, often racially exaggerated, forms... It ... Read more